PacketFence v6.1 released

June 20, 2016

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 6.1. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and important bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised.

Here are the changes included in this release:

New Features

Added support for CoovaChilli capable equipment

Added page to visualize the status of the services on all cluster members

Added support for RADIUS Change of Authorization on Meraki equipment

Added configurable actions to be executed at the end of a portal module

Automatic registration of devices is now configurable from the GUI on a per profile basis

A violation can now be triggered by a switch or a switch group

Portal profile filters can now be defined by switch groups

Moved RADIUS audit log in its own module

Saved searches support for the RADIUS audit log module

The portal now supports RADIUS Challenge Response authentication

Enhancements

Added module to redirect to internal or external pages within the portal modules configuration

Added configuration checkup for cluster.conf

Added ability to limit the number of logins when creating a local account

Added choice of sending either RADIUS CoA or Disconnect when deauthenticating a device

Admin interface is now available on all members of the cluster without the need of being the master

FreeRADIUS now logs to a separate file per process (authentication, accounting, load-balancer)

Improved performance of the online/offline search

Bug Fixes

Fix profile filter saving incorrectly on Debian Jessie

Improved internationalization in portal and admin web interfaces

Fixed email registration not working when activating access through a proxy or firewall